Conrail's track geometry train has arrived back at its home base in Reading. Here it is backing past the yard office toward he shops, where it will be stored inside until its next assignment.

Two E-44s in the long-hood forward mode are eastbound under the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, catching the sun's last rays on a cold winter's day. No. 4422 was built by GE for the PRR in October,... (more)

This one has many shots on RP. One this date, as a steady cold drizzle falls and the clouds wreath the ridges, she and her consist are dragging a reluctant coal train on slick rails up the steep ... (more)

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Alco PA-2 No.155A. The Katy owned 6 Alco PA-1 2000hp units built in 1949, and 8 PA-2 2250hp units built in 1950-51. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer l... (more)

Conrail's track geometry train rolls through Pennsylvania Dutch farm country at Lyons, Pennsylvania. Heading west on the former Reading East Penn branch, the train is halfway between Allentown and... (more)

A string of Baltimore & Ohio I-18-class cabooses sits in Hagerstown, Maryland, on August 31st, 1975. Painted in Chessie System colors, the cabooses are C-3040, C-3004 and C-3036. These cars were... (more)

In an era before double stacks, a freshly painted B36-7 teams with an SD40-2 to roll a westbound COFC train through Marysville, Pennsylvania. The eastbound and westbound tracks are grade=separated... (more)

Lots of Flared-Radiators

Creeping to a stop in San Luis Obispo is an eastbound Southern Pacific freight, heading down California's coast from the Bay Area to Los Angeles. On the poi... (more)

Honorary Alco

Southern Pacific SD9E 4435 and GP20E 4102 round the balloon track at the east end of the railroad's West Colton Yard in order to head west with a Hauler. Even though e... (more)

Southern Pacific Railroad's corporate headquarters was located at 1 Market Street in San Francisco, California. But for the average San Franciscan, they only knew the SP at Third and Townsend, wh... (more)

PRR symbol freight PR-4 for Camden, NJ has 76 cars behind the 2322, 2227, 2247 and 2641 (GP-35, two GP-30s and a U-25B). Tunnel is located east of the twin Spruce Creek Tunnels where, at this poin... (more)

BN 5519 leads a mix of vintage EMDs on a northbound freight at Reservation Tower in Tacoma, WA on a somewhat dreary February day in 1979. Taken from the embankment of the Milwaukee Road overpass, ... (more)

BN 6834 leads a southbound freight through Seilacoom, WA along Puget Sound at the ferry slip to McNeil Island. This line sees BNSF, UP and Amtrak 40 years later, and Amtrak will soon move off this... (more)

BN 1799 along with an F9B 803 and GP9 1794 idle near the Skykomish, WA depot between helper runs in February 1975. The units appear fairly clean considering their assignment of helping trains thro... (more)

How I Spent My Third Wedding Anniversary (Thanks, Honey!)

After assisting the World's Fair Daylight (N... (more)